Featured Blue House 26 May 2022 Moon Jae-in's Place in History Moon was not without faults, but his achievements will likely survive the test of time.
Featured Business & Economy 25 May 2022 Korean Department Store is the Worlds’ Biggest Luxury Goods Seller Shinsegae Gangnam overtook London's Harrods as the highest grossing single store.
Featured Newsletter 23 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol met with Joe Biden. TBR presents a viewer's guide for the Local Elections.
Featured Blue House 23 May 2022 Moon Jae-in is the Most Popular President in South Korean History: Poll Moon is also the first president who leaves office with a higher approval than the incoming president.
Featured Society 20 May 2022 Public Transit Access for the Disabled Has a Long Way to Go: Data Access widely depending on the mode of transportation.
Featured Liberals 19 May 2022 Park Ji-hyeon's First Month: Rookie Leader Gains Her Footing The 26-year-old activist is emerging as an internal critic of the liberals.
Featured Business & Economy 18 May 2022 USD-KRW Exchange Rate Creeps Up The government is keeping a close watch on a potential FOREX run.
Featured Newsletter 16 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol is inaugurated as the 20th president of the Republic of Korea. Then he went shopping.
Featured History 16 May 2022 Thirty Year Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots Korean Americans have suffered a brunt of the damage as the police pulled their forces to defend the white suburbs.
Featured Business & Economy 13 May 2022 Early Morning Delivery Service Suffers as Pandemic Nears End New players wave the white flag while the established services are locked into a cutthroat competition.
Featured Liberals 12 May 2022 Prosecution Reform: the Democrats' Parting Shot The final bill of the Moon Jae-in administration finalized a longtime liberal project.
Featured Society 11 May 2022 Sensational Murder Case Becomes a Fodder for Prosecution Reform Prosecutors and the police both claimed they solved the murder by Lee Eun-hae.
Featured Newsletter 9 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2022 At the end of Moon Jae-in's term, TBR considers how history will remember his presidency.
Featured Blue House 9 May 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol: Lame Duck at Inauguration For the first time in history, the incoming president is less popular than the outgoing president.
Featured Conservatives 6 May 2022 With PPP, the Exams Never End Worship of meritocracy is a pillar of the "new conservatives."
Featured Blue House 5 May 2022 Reading the Tea Leaves of Yoon Suk-yeol’s First Cabinet The nominees foretell a politics by investigation.
Featured Business & Economy 4 May 2022 Bank of Korea Raises Interest Rate, Pressuring the Real Estate Market Stress on the real estate market is beginning to emerge outside of Seoul.
Featured Newsletter 2 May 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2022 The Democratic Party passed one of the two prosecution reform bills. Our look on the first month of 26-year-old Park Ji-hyeon as the Democratic Party leader.
Featured Society 2 May 2022 Most Favor BTS Military Exemption Except Current Soldiers: Poll Even the men who recently completed military service are in favor.
Featured Society 29 April 2022 The Middle Class Thinks They're Not: Data A significant portion of South Korea's middle class consider themselves to be poor.
Featured Conservatives 28 April 2022 Garo Sero Institute: the Fount of Far-Right Misinformation South Korea's resurgent right takes it cues from its Youtube channel.
Featured Healthcare 27 April 2022 Privatized Healthcare Fears Rise Following a Court Ruling on For-Profit Hospitals Jeju District Court's ruling may be the first step toward privatizing healthcare over the long term.
Featured Newsletter 25 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2022 The Democratic Party tries to pass the last-minute law to limit the power of prosecutors.
Featured Media 25 April 2022 Media Obsesses Over Yoon's Lunch Menu, Wife's Flip-Flops Hundreds of articles were published about what Yoon Suk-yeol had for lunch and what his wife wore while holding a dog.
Featured Conservatives 22 April 2022 Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Justice Minister Nominee, Charges His Rival for Defamation Governance by prosecution begins.
Featured Elections 21 April 2022 Daejang-dong Scandal, Revisited The real estate scandal dominated the election, but resulted in nothing.
Featured History 20 April 2022 Hong Seong-u, 84, Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney Hong, who resigned from the bench to protest the Park Chung-hee dictatorship, was involved in nearly every major legal case in South Korea's democracy activism.
Featured Newsletter 18 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol announced his first cabinet. Should BTS be exempt from military service?
Featured Business & Economy 18 April 2022 Ssangyong Motors Adrift Again as Edison Motors Deal Fails The troubled automaker lost yet another buyer.
Featured Conservatives 15 April 2022 FKI’s Data Malpractice in the Presidency Move Even by the relaxed standards for a commissioned research, the claim of expected economic benefits from the Blue House move is unusually bold.
Featured Blue House 14 April 2022 Conservative Smear Campaign Against the Moon Administration Begins in Earnest The tendentious claims against Moon are designed to evoke the actual corrupt episodes of Park Geun-hye.
Featured Conservatives 13 April 2022 Park Geun-hye Signals a Return to Politics Park's personal attorney will run for mayor in Daegu, the conservative stronghold that is the former president's hometown.
Featured Newsletter 11 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2022 Prosecutors dropped charges against key Yoon Suk-yeol ally while indicting a prominent liberal politician. TBR's profile of Garo Sero Institute, South Korea's premier peddler of right-wing misinformation.
Featured Liberals 11 April 2022 Lee Jae-myung’s Very Feminist Campaign Lee may have lost the presidential election, but he gained a long-term asset: young women supporters.
Featured Business & Economy 8 April 2022 Ham Yeong-ju the New CEO of Hana Financial Group Despite Opposition Ham is legendary for becoming an executive of Korea's second largest bank with only a high school diploma.
Featured Blue House 7 April 2022 Yoon Moves the Office of the President out of the Blue House, Evicts the Defense Ministry The idea is common enough, but the execution is not.
Featured Society 6 April 2022 Afghan Children in Ulsan Face Discrimination on the Way to School After the initial bout of racism, the Afghan children began attending schools.
Featured Newsletter 4 April 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, March 2022 Lee Jun-seok attacks the disability rights activists. Presidential transition committee began a smear campaign against the Moon Jae-in administration.
Featured History 4 April 2022 Admiral J. Robert Lunney, 94, Hero of the Heungnam Evacuation Heungnam Evacuation was the largest evacuation operation with a single ship.
Featured Business & Economy 1 April 2022 GOS Crisis Shows Samsung Electronics' Vulnerability "Samsung's technological advantage is over," says KBS News.
Featured Key Players 31 March 2022 Stock Up, Stock Down: Presidential Election Winners and Losers Yoon Suk-yeol may have won the election, but Lee Jae-myung (and others) won something as well.
Featured COVID-19 30 March 2022 The Disabled Suffer from the Pandemic Social distancing measures and lack of hospital access have hurt the quality of life for the disabled.
Featured Newsletter 28 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2022 North Korea tests an ICBM. A look back on the real estate issued that determined the presidential election.
Featured Elections 28 March 2022 Exit Poll: Young Women Fought Back Against Incels Lee Jun-seok predicted his sexist strategy would win. He was wrong.
Featured Business & Economy 25 March 2022 Nuclear Energy Stocks Enjoy an Election Bump President-elect Yoon has been emphasizing the importance of the nuclear industry.
Featured Blue House 24 March 2022 Looking Ahead to the Yoon Suk-yeol Presidency The new president-elect is certain to face numerous challenges while his political foothold is weak.
Featured History 23 March 2022 Obituary: Moon Hye-rim, 86, Women’s Rights Activist Moon was an advocate for sex workers near the US army bases in South Korea.
Featured Newsletter 21 March 2022 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2022 Yoon Suk-yeol attempted to move the presidency out of the Blue House by evicting the Ministry of National Defense.
Featured Business & Economy 21 March 2022 Kim Jeong-ju, 54, Billionaire Founder of Nexon Kim was one of the most successful start-up founders of South Korea.
